Comrade Gorbunov! I request that you direct this to the Small Soviet (surely it will examine the matter on its merits?). Vorovskii is an old Marxist and Bolshevik; I rely entirely on his knowledge of people 90.

29. I. 1921. Lenin

First published incompletely in 1934 in the journal

"Proletarskaya Revolutsiya" No. 3

according to the manuscript

Published in complete form for the first time,